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Secretary places the Lancashire and Cheshire Society in an enviable 

 position, and the same may be said of the Cambridge and Birmingham 

 Societies. The various entomological branches of the Yorkshire Natu- 

 ralists' Union always do good work, that held at York being especially 

 active just now. A new Society at Aberdeen should prove successful 

 if properly taken in hand. Where is the old Glasgow Society 

 now? Surely this Society should have held out, and not have been 

 allowed to collapse. The publications of the Societies are, as a rule, 

 unsatisfactory. The South London Society has published nothing this 

 year ; but the City of London brought out its modest Transactions 

 as soon as the year had closed. It is much to be regretted that the 

 Lancashire and Birmingham Societies cannot see their way to publish 

 independently annual Transactions, including the papers read at the 

 meetings. There can be no doubt of their scientific utility, and 

 perhaps some kind friends will yet offer the money necessary to do so. 



The Magazines have changed but little in their respective channels. 

 The Entomologist^ s Monthly Magazine has perhaps rather more of so-- 

 called unscientific matter than usual ; whilst the fauna of China and 

 Japan have been less prominent in the pages of The Entomologist. 

 The British JVaturalist shows perhaps most improvement, but its 

 continuation articles, as Mr. Dale's paper on " The Sphingid^," tire out 

 people from their slow rate of appearance. This, indeed, is the 

 weakest spot in an otherwise excellent magazine. The Naturalist does 

 excellent scientific work ; and the same may be said of The Annals of 

 Scottish Natural History, an excellent publication, which, at the 

 beginning of the year superseded the Scottish Naturalist ] whilst a new 

 magazine, The Irish Naturalist, has also been started, and deals with the 

 Natural History of the sister island. 



Altogether the year has to be looked on as having given a great deal 

 of pleasure to the collector, and it is to be hoped that the abundance of 

 insects will lead to the publication of more scientific notes of lasting 

 interest than has been the case so far. There will then be but little to 

 regret in the year 1892. — J. W. Tutt. December \st, 1892. 



Notes of the Season. — Clevedon. — Ivy moths are to the fore this 

 season, the following species being very abundant, viz. : — Orrhodia spa- 

 dicea, O. vaccinii, Orthosia lota, O. macilenta, Mellinia ferruginea, and 

 Anchocelis pistacina, in great variety ; Scopelosoma satellitia, Fhlogo- 

 phora meticulosa, Xanthia citrago, X. cerago, and X. silago, Agrotis 

 saucia and A. suffusa (the last-named species I have not seen since 

 1885), Hade7ia protea. Folia jiavicincta, Xylifia petrificata (not so 

 common as usual), Cidaria miata, C. psittacata, sparingly (never abun- 

 dant at Clevedon) ; Agrotis segetum, Miselia oxyacanthai, Anchocelis 

 lunosa, A. litura, A. riifina, (the last three scarce), with a sprinkling of 

 Xylina rhizolitha, Scopula ferrugalis, and one or two others, make up a 

 tolerable list this season, which I hope may be supplemented shortly 

 with Dasycampa rubiginea and X. setnibrunnea, weather permitting. — 

 J. Mason, Clevedon. October i^th, 1892. 



Kent. — I am glad to add my testimony to the fact of this having 

 been a good season, the first part of it remarkably so. Had it not 

 been so rough and windy I should have had very good sport during my 

 stay of nearly five weeks at Deal, but as everyone knows, in coast 

 collecting, the absence of wind is one of the things requisite for 



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